Green Tips: Waste to energy

Green Tips: Waste to energy

What is waste to energy, and is it practical and clean? This concept of using heat to burn waste and generate power has been around since 1874 in the United Kingdom, followed by the first U.S. plant in 1885 in New York. It originated as a way to manage waste, but evolved into a two-prong benefit of capturing energy from the heat, as well. Denmark opened the first waste-to-energy facility in 1904, and they started to emerge in the U.S. by the mid…